Director Michael Curtiz’s 1956 film The Best Things in Life Are Free is a genial, vivacious, entertaining 20th Century Fox CinemaScope and Color by Deluxe musical tribute to 1920s jazz age Broadway and Hollywood songsmiths […]
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1969 Italian film Medea emphasises the operatic nature of this tale, presumably the point of casting the iconic Maria Callas, and he uses her great, tragic face to huge effect. The beloved […]
Director Roger Donaldson’s 1985 film Marie [Marie: A True Story] is a good-hearted, conscientious, but insufficiently rousing biopic plus political drama, with Sissy Spacek as Marie Ragghianti, a 1958 Nashville battered wife who rises in […]
Director Alfred Shaughnessy’s 1958 pop musical Six-Five Special [Calling All Cats] features Petula Clark, Lonnie Donegan, Cleo Laine, Johnny Dankworth, Jim Dale, John Barry, Dickie Valentine, Joan Regan and Russ Hamilton among many others. The […]
Director John Trent’s 1984 Canadian film Best Revenge stars John Heard as Charlie, a small-time dealer who finds himself blackmailed and out of his depth, and joins Bo (Levon Helm) in Spain for a $4 […]
The 1987 Shy People is Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky’s fourth film in the West, following Maria’s Lovers, Runaway Train and Duet for One. It is a semi-successful oddity, and boasts an excellent performance by Jill […]
Director Andrei Konchalovsky’s 1984 drama Maria’s Lovers is a slow-moving but fascinating look at the effect of World War Two on a returning Yugoslav-American soldier Ivan Bibic (John Savage), who comes home to his Pittsburgh, […]
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